The
curriculum team offer a range of activities that reflect the needs of
Sandwell schools in fulfilling national curriculum requirements. These
include ;
Centre
Based Courses
Professional
development courses for teaching staff, based around National Curriculum
PoS and QCA schemes of work for ICT. All contain elements of ;
Strategies
for teaching and learning in the classroom
creating
resources
assessing
pupil capability
learning
to use appropriate software
Generic ICT skills
and training courses for all school staff
email and
the Internet
Microsoft
Office tool
Consultancy
and Advice
Advice is available
on all aspects of the use and application of ICT across the curriculum.
Classroom
management
Audit of
hardware and software
Software
for the curriculum
Planning
and developing the ICT curriculum
Post Ofsted
developments
Special needs
and ICT
New technologies
in the classroom
Statemented
Pupils
EMU provides
assessment, advice and consultancy for the bespoke use of ICT to
support individual statemented pupils.
EMU works with
the LEA, Sandwell Health Authority (Speech and Language Therapy
and Occupational Therapy), Social Services and classroom practitioners
to support such pupils.
Pupil
Projects
EMU projects
facilitate the curriculum delivery to pupils whilst enabling staff
training. Project are negotiable for all key stages. All projects
Introduce
new technologies and software within a curriculum focussed activity
Develop pupil
confidence and self esteem
Develop interpersonal
skills
Provide realistic
contexts through links with local industries and agencies
Link to pupil
assessment and awards
Primary
Control Projects
Introducing
pupils to computer control and challenging them to create procedures
to control a set of traffic lights. A second challenge uses an input
device.
The project
relates tot he QCA ICT scheme of work for years 5 and 6 :
UNIT 5E CONTROLLING
DEVICES
UNIT 6C CONTROL AND MONITORING
Pupil
Projects - THERMAL IMAGING
A partnership
with Sandwell MBC's urban form department resulted in the development
of a major resource pack which has been distributed to all Sandwell
schools.Pupil and teachers worked together to ensure the resource
pack reflected the needs of local schools.
Pupil
Projects - DATA LOGGING
Using data logging
equipment to measure environmental factors such as temperature,
high and soil moisture, pupils are challenged to test their hypotheses.This
project usually takes place off site and is designed to meet many
of the requirements of QCA ICT and NC science for KS3.
ICT UNIT 7 MEASURING PHYSICAL DATA
SCI KS3 SC1 1B; SC1 2G; SC2 5D
Classroom
support
Classroom support
is negotiated with individual schools and can include ;
